Automatic cash-carrier



(No Model.)

AUTOMATIC CASH CARRIER.

E. A. ALLEN.

PatentedJune 24,1884.

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FRANK. A. ALLEN, or eAivmmnen,

PATENT OFFICE,

ASSIGNOR TO THE ORIENTAL TEA COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

AUTOMATIC CASH-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming'part of Letters Patent No, 301,040, dated June 24;, 1884-.

Application filed April 30, 1884. (No model.)

c To aZZ whom it concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK A. ALLEN, of

- Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic (lash-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, simple, convenient, and efficient automatic dewice for holding or retaining the elevator in positionabove the track while the cash-ball is rolling therefrom upon the tilting section, or upon the main track, and in such manner that the rolling of the cash-ball shall contact with the holding device sufficiently to actuate the same, and thereby release the elevator, so as to allow it to descend to its normal position, and a spring return the catch or holding device into the position to be actuated by the ascent of the elevator as it is drawn upward to the track by the operator;

and it consists in the construction, combina tion, and arrangement of a spring-lever catch or holding device in position with the track, so that the movement of the elevator upward shall actuate such catch or holding device so as to permit the elevator to be held or suspended at its highest point until the cash-ball shall roll therefrom upon the track, the incline of which shall cause the cash-ball to roll upon the same, and thereby actuate the said lever-catch or holding device, and release the said elevator and permit it to return downward to its former position, thereby saving much time and labor to the operators of such automatic caslrcarrier, vas hereinafter more fully described and specifically set forth in the claim.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of an automatic cash-carrier having my invention Fig. 2 represents a top plan of the same. Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of a modification of the same.

' with one or more elevators, D, by which the cash-ball E may be elevated a little above the track A or tilting section B, and at one side cline bottom of the elevator D upon the said supplemental tilting sections B or main track A, as heretofore, wherein it is found that in case the cash-ball is rolled from the elevator with undue force, or with two great momentum, it is liable to jump from the track or pass over the same. As in almost all cases the course of the track is at a right angle to the movement of the cash-ball leaving the car, which necessitates the movement of the cashball from the elevator to be retarded or not too rapid, and in order to provide for such slow movement of the said cash-ball E therefrom, it is found necessary th at thebottom of the said elevator D shall have but very slight incline, which requires that the said elevator shall be held at its delivery-point long enough for the cash-ball to roll slowly therefrom upon the track. This requires the time and attention of the salesman or operater, who is thus detained from attendance upon waiting customers. To overcome these objections I pivot to the supports F of the track a bent lever catch or holder, H, one end of which is forced beneath the bottom of the elevator as it passes above the same by means of a suitable spring, L, so as to hold or p, retain the said elevator D in position when released by the salesman and permit the cash-ball E to roll slowly therefrom upon the main track A, or upon the tilting section B, which is balanced upon a slight incline; and as the said cashball E rolls down the same past its pivotal bearing the weight of the ball tips the said section B, so as to bring the forward or down-3 ward moving end portion in contact with the inward-curved end portion, H, and force the same horizontally, which act releases the opposite curved end, H, from beneath the bot to of the elevator D, which permits it to descen ,"er-"retnrp to itsii'orrnal position to receive the said cash-ball again, a suitable spring acting to return the said curved pivoted levercatch or holder E into the position to be actuated in like manner when the elevator is drawn up past the same, as before. It will be understoodthat like results may be accomplished by a variety of pivoted, weighted, or

spring catches or holding devices adapted to be actuated by the upward movement of the elevator, so as to .retain the same whilethe cash-ball is rolling therefrom upon the track, and the movement of the ball over the track may serve as a means to actuate such mechanical devices, so as to release the elevator, as before. Therefore I do not limit my invention to such devices as are shown and described, but wish to have it understood that the essential feature of my invention consists in an automatic catch that maybe actuated by the upward movement of elevator and released by the movement of the cash-ball, so as to accomplish the objects stated.

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'ment of the elevator, so as to retain the same at the track and released by the movement of the cash-ball, as and for the purposes set forth.

FRANK A. ALLEN. I

Witnesses: I

SYLVENUS WALKER,

CHAS. S. GOODING.

It is hereby certified that Letters Patent No. 301,040, granted June 24, 1884, upon the application of Frank A. Allen, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, for an improvement in Automatic Cash-0arriers w as erroneously issued to the Oriental Tea Company, of Boston, Massachusetts, its successors or assigns; that said Letters Patent shouldf have been issued to the Oriental Tea Company, of Boston, Massachusetts, their heirs or assignssaid assignee being a copartnership and not a corporation, and that the; said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office. I Signed, countersigncd, and sealed this 14th day of J une, A. D. 1887.

[SELL] H. L. MULDROW,

. Acting Secretary of the Interior. Oountersigna1: BENTON JJHLLL, I

Gom mismbner of Patents.

Correction in Letters Patent N o. 301,040. 

